Amarnath Gupta

Andrea Zonca leads the Scientific Computing Applications group at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, combining his cosmology expertise with advanced computing skills. His academic foundation includes extensive work analyzing Cosmic Microwave Background data from the Planck Satellite during his Ph.D. and postdoctoral research. At SDSC, he has developed significant expertise in supercomputing, particularly in parallel computing with Python and C++, and maintains widely used community software packages like healpy and PySM. His current role involves leading efforts to help research groups optimize their data analysis pipelines for national supercomputers. He has also built specialized knowledge in cloud computing, particularly in deploying services on platforms like Jetstream using Kubernetes and JupyterHub. As a certified Software Carpentry instructor, he teaches essential computational skills to scientists, including automation with bash, version control with git, and Python programming. His research contributions have been significant, with his work on the healpy package becoming a crucial tool for data analysis on spherical surfaces in Python, garnering widespread use in the scientific community.